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Yearly Archives: 2010

BPM: SharePoint Stumbles with Enterprise Workflows

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is due to be officially announced tomorrow, but thanks to early beta releases and a constant stream of news coverage, the announcement is a bit anti-climatic.  Analysts and early adopters have been kicking the tires for a

Social Media: Gartner says Enterprise Social Media is inevitable

By Dick Weisinger

Sometime last year the folks at Gartner did an about-face on their stance on the use of Social Media in companies.  There is a switch now from the top priority of aligning business objectives with IT to the idea of

Data Explosion: Is the Sky Falling?

By Dick Weisinger

The order of progression for naming data storage units goes something like this:  kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera-, peta-, exa-, zetta-, yotta-.  After the yottabyte (10008 bytes) there isn’t an agreed upon name for the next bigger range of computer byte

Business Intelligence (BI): DynaTrek Enables Federated Database Access

By Dick Weisinger

DynaTrek, a Tokyo-based company, has developed a technique to dramatically speed up data access across an environment of distributed databases.  DynaTrek provides capabilities typically found in tools and systems used for performing Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and ETL Data Transformation.

Cloud Computing: A Move Towards Reforming Privacy Laws

By Dick Weisinger

The laws governing the privacy of data stored in the cloud were written almost 24 years ago.  A lot has changed over those 24 years.  And now many cloud-based vendors are lobbying congress to update those laws to the reality